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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.",
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among many they were with me.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God:",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.",
      "citation": "Psalms 54:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
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